In line with efforts by the international community to clampdown on smoking, the Lagos state government has announced plans to ban smoking in public places in the state. The state's Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Ade Ipaye, made this known on Monday when he stated that "the provisions of the new traffic laws had prohibited people from drinking or smoking while driving in the state." He h ...

The Lagos State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Ade Ipaye on Tuesday gave a detailed explanation to the reasons why the government drafted the new law regulating traffic in the city. Mr Ipaye, who was speaking as a guest in Channels Television’s breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily, said that before the law was enacted, the chaotic traffic situation in Lagos posed a threat to people’s health, c ...

The introduction of the non-custodial sentencing option is one of the reforms of the Lagos state government which is aimed among other things at decongesting the prisons and ensuring a more pragmatic criminal justice system. On our big story tonight, our judiciary correspondent, Shola Soyele shows the shift from not only seeking to punish but also to rehabilitate offenders. ...

Criminal justice administration in Lagos is set to get better, fairer & faster. That's according to the Attorney General & Commissioner for Justice, Mr ade ipaye. In a chat with our judiciary correspondent, Shola Soyele recently, the Attorney General shared some measures taken recently to ensure sanity on the roads. ...

An Ikeja High court on Wednesday ruled that it was wrong for the Lagos state government to have detained a Nigerien, Mamman Keita in prison for over 10 years without trial and that the government must pay a compensation of N7 million to the detainee. The presiding judge, of the case between the detainee and the state government, Justice Habeeb Abiru gave this ruling in response to an application the Lagos s ...